Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

Standing is harder than moving.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.

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